sidewaydriver wrote:

I've had it with your America bashing. As soon as I get out of jail, I'm flying out to Ireland to kick your ass.

Lol, bashing is not intended, it's just the facts.

[SPOILER:b9f7593490]it may have been set up just so i can make that joke[/SPOILER:b9f7593490]

Time for everything you ever knew about the world to come crashing down.

The first flight in a plane was not by the Wright Brothers. It in fact occurred 50 years before their flight. It was by a man who worked for a Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) who was an English aristocrat that pioneered aeronautics. In 1804 he demonstrated the world's first glider. Approximately 50 years later in 1853 he persuaded a coachman to fly the device across a valley. A model of that glider now sits in the Yorkshire Air Museum in England.

An octopus has two legs but has eight l imbs.

Oranges are not orange and in fact most are green.

The hardest known substance is not diamonds but a manufactured substance called hyperdiamond or aggregated diamond nanorods.

Water does not freeze at 0C or 32F but in fact freezes at -42C or -43.6F.

The largest known lake does not exist on Earth but 842million miles away in space.

Trees are mostly made of air.

The egg was first in the famous chicken and the egg debate.

There is so no such thing as a fish. It has been concluded that they don't exist.

Australia's deadliest animal is the horse. Not the spider, snake or shark. Between 2000 and 2006 there were 128 animal related deaths, horses were responsible for 36 of them. The second deadliest is the cow with 20 deaths in the period. Dog with 12, Sharks 11, Snakes 8, Crocodiles 4 and Spiders 3.

The animal which has saved the most lives is not the dog or horse but the North American horseshoe crab.

Pins and needles has nothing to do with poor blood circulation but when nerves are compressed.

The world's first highest peak is Mount Everest. The world's second highest peak is also Mount Everest.

For every 300m (1000ft) gained in height the boiling point of water reduces by 1C. At the top of Everest water boils at 70C. At 23,000m (75,000ft) it would boil at room temperature.

Under the sea, in the Marianas Trench - deepest known part of the oceans due to the pressure a kettle would start to boil at 530C.

Biting into a gold coin and it leaving a mark would let you presume that is a fake. That is far from true as gold coins since the tudor period also contain copper.

The speed camera was originally invented to get cars to speed up and not down.

The type of staircase which goes round and round is called a helical staircase, NOT a spiral staircase.

How do you know when the sun has set? One would be inclined to say when it has disappeared below the horizon. That is incorrect as what you are looking at is a mirage. As the sun falls in the sky, the light passes at a lower angle through the atmosphere and bends more and more as the amount of air it has to travel through increases. This means that you still see the "sun" even though it's physically below the horizon.

There is noise in space but it is inaudible to the human ear.

Most of the River Nile is in Sudan and not Egypt.

The language most commonly spoken in ancient Rome was Greek and not Latin.

English is not the official in the following countries: England, Australia and half the United States. This is because an official language is a language that has been given legal status for use in courts, parliament and administration. This makes it the unofficial language.

Slavery was only made illegal in England on 6th April 2010. It was abolished elsewhere in the British Empire in 1833 but not in England.

Britain does not have a written constitution. The laws however are written down but not in a single place. The "British Constitution" is composed of several documents:

Magna Carta (1215)
Petition of Right Act (1628)
Bill of Rights (1689)
Act of Settlement (1701)
Parliament Acts (1911 and 1949)
Representation of the People Act (1969)

These statutes all cover the key law for Britain, unlike the USA which has it in one document. There is also numerous Case Law which is used as well.

Therefore Britain doesn't have a constitution due to it's age of development - about 2500 years - it has no founding fathers etc.

There are gaps however. The Cabinet has no legal existence. Law did not demand the establishment of the Houses of Parliament either. The office of the Prime Minister was only recognised in 1937 - and the role of the Prime Minister has never been defined in law.

Similarly in the USA the constitution does not state how elections should be conducted.

Finally - a survey by Columbia Law School found that two-thirds of Americans identified the phrase 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs' as a quotation from the US constitution when in fact it came from the pen of Karl Marx.

Tomdincan wrote:

Alowishus wrote: The first flight in a plane was not by the Wright Brothers. It in fact occurred 50 years before their flight. It was by a man who worked for a Sir George Cayley (1773-1857) who was an English aristocrat that pioneered aeronautics. In 1804 he demonstrated the world's first glider. Approximately 50 years later in 1853 he persuaded a coachman to fly the device across a valley. A model of that glider now sits in the Yorkshire Air Museum in England. The point was that the Wright Brothers' flight was the first powered flight. They used gliders to test and piggy-backed on Cayley's works.

Most people simply state that they were the inventors of the aeroplane and the first people to fly. I am saying that is not the case.

Cameron wrote:

JoshWoodzy wrote: Cameron wrote: Alowishus wrote: Oranges are not orange and in fact most are green. Given that I am paid to work with oranges on a daily basis, I am calling BS on this one. They're green in warm climates where most are grown. They turn orange when the weather cools. Of course they are orange by the time they are shipped to your store for you to work with them, CamWin. GAWD. It changes colors, therefore it does not count. As an ambassador of fruits and vegetables, the Law of CamWin, section IV, verse 9, states that the official color of fruits is the one that appears upon consumption. By the same accord, bananas are not green.

Well i bent the truth slightly. In many countries they are in fact green and are sold as such.

This is the same for lemons, mangoes, tangerines and grapefruit.

Oranges are unknown in the wild - they are a cross between a tangerine and the pomelo. In fact oranges are subtropical fruit and the color depends on where it is grown. The green skin turns orange when the weather cools.

In some countries where oranges are grown they are artificially coloured for export to make them orange.

American oranges come from California, Texas and Florida and were synthetically dyed until the Food and Drug Administration banned it in 1955.